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STUDYING the mechanisms of religious belief could lead to a better
insight into the minds of people with delusions.

An
international conference in Sydney this week will hear that some
religious beliefs -- including that a virgin gave birth to the son
of god -- qualify as delusions.

In
his presentation to the Cognitive Science Conference today,
Macquarie University PhD student Ryan McKay will outline the latest
thinking on how religious belief relates to delusion.

"The
line between psychosis and intense religiosity is a difficult one
to draw," he said.

He
said many beliefs were triggered by a bizarre or unexplained
"religious experience", often produced by changes in brain
activity.

For
example, it had been shown that when Buddhist monks went into deep
mediation and experienced a sense of "being at one with the world",
they also experienced decreased blood flow to the part of the brain
responsible for concepts of the "self".

The
crux of delusion lay in why these experiences trigger religious
belief in some people but not in others, Mr McKay said.

"The
idea is that you need some sort of second deficit which means
you're unable to discard the impossible experience," he
said.

Tony Blair was rebuffed yesterday over attempts to give
international backing to military action to topple the brutal
leaders of failed states like Iraq.

A
summit of 14 world leaders refused to endorse a joint statement
which proposed waiving the legal ban on intervening in foreign
states if governments failed to protect their citizens from
repression or "state failure".

The
original draft, revealed by The Independent on Sunday, said: "Where
a population is suffering serious harm as a result of internal war,
insurgency, repression or state failure, and the state in question
is unwilling to halt or avert it, the principle of non-intervention
yields to the international responsibility to protect."

But
the passage was cut from the final communiqué amid fears that
it could have provided justification for the war in Iraq and give
carte blanche to Western powers to intervene in countries around
the world. The final document instead stressed "the crucial
importance of international co-operation in responding to
humanitarian crises". It said: "We are clear that the UN Security
Council remains the sole body to authorise global action in dealing
with humanitarian crises of this kind."

The
disputed passage was taken from a report by the Canada-based
International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty.
Instead, the leaders said it was "a valuable contribution to the
ongoing and necessary debate within the UN on how better to deal
with these new and emerging challenges."

Speaking at the end of a three-day Progressive Governance
Summit in Surrey, Mr Blair refused yesterday to link proposals for
reforming international law with the war in Iraq, but called for
new international "rules" to govern intervention in failing states.
He said: "The differences over Iraq are well known. The real issue
is how do we, in circumstances where there is brutal repression of
people by a particular regime, how do we offer them support and
protection and what are the rules, because people want to know that
they are operating in a system with rules. This is work actually
irrespective of any particular situation which has been taken
forward under the auspices of the UN. I think it's important we
keep it there, so this is an important contribution to the
debate."

Comment: The extent of the lies and
self-delusion among some of our supposedly elected leaders is
staggering. The whole world can see that Iraq has been left in a
disatrous state by the Anglo-American invasion, yet Blair shows no
shame in talking as if the Iraq invasion was a great success. A
Psychopath if there ever was one.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Monday dismissed as a
"bunch of bull" charges that President Bush used disputed
intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq and said there was no
need to delve further into the matter, which Democrats want
investigated.

"As
far as the president's concerned, he's moved on. ... I think the
bottom has been gotten to," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer
said of a disputed statement in the president's State of the Union
address that Iraq sought to buy uranium from Africa for its alleged
nuclear weapons program.

"This revisionist notion that somehow this is now the core of
why we went to war, a central issue in why we went to war, a
fundamental underpinning of the president's decisions, is a bunch
of bull," Fleischer added.

[...]

[CIA
Director George Tenet] took responsibility for the CIA's approval
of the speech which contained the uranium claim, but did not
himself read the text of the State of the Union prior to its
delivery before a joint session of Congress.

[...]

But
with recent polls showing an erosion of support for the Iraqi
operation, there was heavy criticism from Democrats, some of whom
hope to replace Bush in the White House in the 2004 presidential
election.

"There ought to be a thorough investigation, either by the
existing committees or by a select committee," said Sen. Carl Levin
of Michigan, top Armed Services Committee Democrat.

Sen.
Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, the senior Democrat on the
intelligence committee, said the panel may call Tenet to answer
questions this week.

Comment:
Bush had no solid evidence to back the claim when he made the
comment, and still has no solid evidence. His statement to the
American people was "a bunch of bull." Bush lied.

ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. (AP) - White House press secretary
Ari Fleischer thought he was only posing for pictures when he was
brought to the nose of Air Force One after President Bush returned
from a trip to Africa on Saturday.

What
he didn't know was that his staff had enlisted a base fire engine
to help mark the end of Fleischer's 2 1/2-year tenure as Bush's
chief spokesman.

He
quickly realized what was up when the mist from the engine's hose
blew his way.

Fleischer, who by this time had exchanged his navy blue
business suit for a pair of sweat pants, T-shirt and running shoes,
sprinted away.

With
firefighters in pursuit, Fleischer eluded them again.

But
he then indulged his staff, administration and military officials,
and reporters gathered on the tarmac by walking into the spray and
getting drenched. [...]

Comment:
"Afterwards Fleischer was handcuffed and lead away to stand trial
accused of knowingly lying to the American public on various
matters including the war in Iraq."

Sorry this piece
was from a report in an alternate universe where justice is
actually served.

US
President George W Bush last night defended pre-war US intelligence
on Iraq's alleged arms programmes as "darn good," amid charges he
improperly inflated the nuclear threat posed by Saddam
Hussein.

His
comments came after his closest ally, British Prime Minister Tony
Blair said that he was proud of his role in overthrowing Saddam and
defended his government's intelligence briefings in the run-up to
the war.

Bush, who has drawn fire over a sentence in his January 28
State of the Union address to the nation, said: "The intelligence I
get is darn good intelligence. And the speeches I have given were
backed by good intelligence."

The
White House has since admitted that the evidence buttressing that
line - "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein
recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa" -
was so flawed that it should not have been included in the
speech.

[...] Bush and top aides, including national security adviser
Condoleezza Rice, repeatedly warned that Iraq sought nuclear arms,
and Rice conjured the spectre of a "mushroom cloud" hanging over a
devastated American city.

[...] But the UN nuclear watchdog questioned Britain's evidence
on Iraq trying to import uranium from Africa, saying it may all be
based on forged documents.

A
spokeswoman for the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed
evidence London had provided to the Vienna-based agency had been
based on fakes.

Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter also said US
statements about Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction before
launching the war were a "lie."

France, meanwhile, denied it had supplied Britain with the
intelligence behind London's assertion that Saddam had attempted to
import uranium from Africa.

Comment:
First our psychopathic President Bush says his speeches are backed
by good "intelligence" and then the White House says some of the
"intelligence" was so flawed that it should not have been included
in the speech. So apparently flawed intelligence is good
intelligence as far as Bush is concerned. The Bush Reich used the
statement to put gloss on their fomentation of fear upon the
American people, without any solid evidence. So far not one WMD has
been recovered in Iraq...

A Reader Comments:

Dear
Signs,

I
have come across two articles in the last few days that illustrate
low profile but profound changes to our military that have already
happened and some poised to happen. Together, they offer a clear
sign of where things are headed. Both initiatives have been or are
in the process of being ramrodded by Donald Rumsfeld.
The first, from Newsweek is a typical," this seems
scary, but look, we say it's really ok so go right back to sleep"
story about the formation of a unified North American U.S. Military
command, Northcom.

The
gymnastics used to avoid some of the most obvious reasons for why
the coordination of the major military branches might be utilized
in North America are ridiculous, and finally the reader is lured
into the sense that they need all this mainly to deal with suicide
hijackers. Just where do the Army, Navy and Marines fit in
here?

The
second story (requires registration) covers
Rumsfeld's hell-bent initiative to largely eliminate the Reserve
forces and replace them with professional military. What better way
to promote loyalty to big brother than to make most U.S. soldiers
totally economically dependent on him? All the more likely that
they might dutifully repress their fellow citizens or serve the
empire overseas for extended periods when called on to do so by our
Commandeer in Chief.

It
could be a long, hot and deadly summer for American forces in Iraq,
who may soon face increased attacks, US Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld said.

He
acknowledged the Bush administration does not know how long the
US-led occupation will last or how much it will cost.
American and coalition troops have been the target of daily
attacks.

Just
hours after Rumsfeld's warning, one US soldier was killed and six
others wounded early yesterday when rocket-propelled grenades were
fired at their convoy, a military spokes-man said.

Since May 1, when US
President George W. Bush declared major combat over, more than 30
US troops have been killed and scores wounded in hit-and-run
attacks.

"I'm
afraid we're going to have to expect this to go on," Rumsfeld said
on Sunday on the television show Meet the Press.
"And there's even specu-lation that during the month of July, which
is an anni-versary for a lot of Baathist (Saddam Hussein's party)
events, we could see an increase in the number of attacks," he
said.

Elsewhere, a group claiming
to be an Iraqi branch of the al-Qaida terror network said it - and
not Saddam Hussein - is behind the armed resis-tance against US
forces in postwar Iraq, according to a tape aired on an Arab TV
station on Sunday.

Dubai-based Al-Arabiya
satellite station aired a four-minute video showing a
black-and-white still photograph of a man dressed like an Islamic
cleric with a message read over top by a distorted male's voice.
[...]

The
Pentagon again postpones a withdrawal of 3rd Infantry soldiers. The
move comes as India backs out of its promise to send a contingent.

By Esther Schrader and Paul Richter, Times Staff Writers

WASHINGTON —
Postponing troops' return to their families for the second time in
two months, the Pentagon announced Monday that more than 10,000
soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division would not, as they had been
told, be coming home by the end of September.

The
announcement came as India said it would not send a promised
division that would have added 17,000 troops to the forces on the
ground, although the Pentagon said there was no connection between
the extended deployment and New Delhi's decision.

Two-thirds of the division
will remain in Iraq "indefinitely," said Richard Olson, a spokesman
for the division at Ft. Stewart, Ga., its headquarters.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White
House is expected on Tuesday to forecast record budget deficits in
excess of $400 billion this fiscal year and next with little hope
of a turnaround anytime soon.

Democrats
said the deficit was approaching crisis proportions and
deteriorating rapidly. Some fiscal conservatives urged President
Bush to do more to reverse the trend before it gets any
worse.

The White
House countered that the bigger deficits were "manageable" and
reflected economic and national security priorities following the
Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

Administration officials said
the budget projections would include, for the first time, initial
costs of the war in Iraq.

Military
operations there and in Afghanistan have cost roughly $4.8 billion
a month -- $58 billion on an annual basis -- which is well over
initial estimates, according to the Concord Coalition, a balanced
budget advocacy group.

"We are
drifting into bigger and bigger deficits and what I find alarming
is that neither party is willing to give up its political
priorities to do anything about it," said Robert Bixby, the group's
executive director. [...]

PARIS - France’s defence minister on Monday called for
the resumption of United Nations weapons inspections in Iraq,
saying it was the only way to remove continuing doubts about the
existence or not of weapons of mass destruction in the
country.

“The best way to remove the doubts would be to let the UN
inspectors go in and see what the situation is on the
ground,” Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie told
state-owned France Inter radio on France’s Bastille Day
national holiday.

The
international community was not in a position to know if the
alleged weapons existed, although it was clear that if the former
Iraqi regime had had them, it had not chosen to use them when it
was ”in great difficulty” during the US-led war, she
added.

Alliot-Marie said France was “ready to help with the
reconstruction of Iraq” but only within a framework created
by the United Nations.

Her
comments came amid increasing controversy in Britain and the United
States, which led the war on Iraq against opposition from France
and other European countries, over the fact that to date no weapons
of mass destruction have been found in the oil-rich
country.

Both
London and Washington cited the alleged presence of such weapons as
the main justification for invading Iraq.

BAGHDAD - Soldiers of toppled president Saddam Hussein’s
armed forces faced off in tense protests on Monday with US troops
as they demanded payment of their first salaries in four
months.

Roughly 300 soldiers and officers from Iraq’s military,
disbanded since an overwhelming defeat by a US-led coalition three
months ago, gathered at a former Baghdad airport to demand their
salaries, unpaid since March.

“There were announcements on the radio and in newspapers
that salary distribution would be on the 14th,” air force
officer Haseem Anash Atowfuk, 35, told AFP as an angry crowd leaned
over concertina wire and shouted complaints at the US
soldiers.

A
loudspeaker call in Arabic for the veterans to disperse went
largely unheeded, with groups of protestors chanting “Down,
down America”.

US
troops appeared prepared to fire warning shots but backed
off.

The
US-led coalition announced June 23 it would begin monthly payments
from 50 to 250 dollars on July 14 for up to250 , 000former
professional soldiers, adding that another 300,000 conscripts would
receive a one-off settlement.

“They are liars. Our situation is desperate, and maybe
all these soldiers will turn against the US because so far there is
no solution,” said former soldier Hassan Abdul
Wahid.

“If they pay us, it will be more quiet, but if they
don’t we will rise up,” he said.

Americans guarding the compound’s south gate said the
payments would not begin until Tuesday.

“It starts tomorrow (July15), when officers will get
paid. It goes from the generals on down,” said Sergeant Jose
Gamez of the1 st Armoured Division.

US
troops opened fire on a demonstration in Baghdad June 18, killing
two Iraqi veterans protesting over unpaid salaries -- the first
such incident in the city since it fell to US-led forces on April9
.

BAGHDAD - Attackers fired rocket- propelled grenades and
machine guns at U.S. soldiers in Baghdad Monday, killing one and
wounding six, the U.S. military said.

The
attack came the day after the launch of an Iraqi Governing Council
of local leaders which the United States hopes will reduce
resentment toward its occupation.

U.S.
forces have been attacked frequently in postwar Iraq. Officers are
braced for a surge this week to coincide with several anniversaries
linked to ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his Baath
Party. [...]

U.S.
forces largely blame die-hard Saddam loyalists for the attacks, but
many ordinary Iraqis have expressed frustration at what they say
has been the slow pace of returning government to Iraqis and
rebuilding the country.

A
group calling itself the "Armed Islamic Movement for Al Qaeda, the
Falluja Branch" said in an audio tape broadcast by Dubai-based Al
Arabiya television Sunday that it was behind attacks on U.S. forces
in Iraq and warned of more bloodshed.

The
group had not been heard of before and it offered no evidence to
back up its claims. Falluja is a town west of Baghdad where U.S.
forces have come under frequent attack. [...]

An
Army reservist from Kennebunk who died in Iraq this month was
killed after an angry crowd of Iraqis surrounded the humvee he and
another soldier were in and set it on fire.

That's according to a report in Time magazine that goes out
Monday.

Christopher Coffin, 51, died July 1 while his unit was outside
of Bagdhad, but conflicting reports about his death have prompted
the Army to launch an internal investigation that could take months
to complete.

Time
this week reports that the vehicle in which Coffin and a comrade
were riding in that day was possibly run off the road by an Iraqi
vehicle barreling directly towards it.

The
magazine says an angry Iraqi crowd swarmed the vehicle and set it
on fire, but that by the time a helicopter got him to a medical
facility, he had died of massive head trauma.

The
chickens, rapidly defrosting in the midday sun, were meant for the
needy families of Fallouja. McGinn's psychological operations unit
was making the delivery as part of its efforts to win over clerics
and civilians alike in this city west of Baghdad that has been a
center of Sunni Muslim resistance to the U.S. military
occupation.

The
imam, a slender, bearded young man, stared hard at McGinn and shook
his head indignantly.

"We
would rather eat rocks than eat chickens from Americans," he spat
out. "Even the poorest person in Fallouja doesn't want chickens
from you." [...]

Comment: 10,000
innocent civilian massacred, the country in dissaray and the best
the US can do is say: "here, have a chicken"

A
25-member Governing Council was unveiled yesterday amid US hopes
raids on American troops will subside if Iraqis feel the occupying
powers are transferring authority to local leaders.

The
council comprises 13 Shi'ites, five Sunni Arabs, five Kurds, an
Assyrian Christian and a Turkmen. Three members are women and 16
have either returned from exile or from an autonomous Kurdish area
which was outside Saddam's control.

The
council can appoint ministers, approve the national budget and
review laws, but little else. Ultimate authority remains with US
and British administrators who have controlled Iraq since their
forces toppled Saddam on April 9.

The
council, meeting in a building that was used by Saddam's
government, faces a challenge to convince ordinary Iraqis it can
represent them, and gives Iraq's majority Shi'ites 13 of the 25
seats in contrast to their marginalisation under Saddam.

Its
first decisions, to scrap all holidays honoring Saddam and his
outlawed Baath Party and to create a new public holiday marking the
day of his downfall, seem absurd considering the real life problems
facing average Iraqis such as serious shortages of food, water and
money.

On
the streets of Baghdad, some Iraqis felt the council had too many
former exiles, while others feared the body was just a tool of the
United States. "We cannot back the council. It is backed by America
and it won't change anything. America has just made empty
promises," said Sabah Kathim, an ice-seller who earns three dollars
a day.

U.S.
administrator Paul Bremer said "The launch of the governing council
will mean that Iraqis play a more central role in running their
country". It’s unlikely that will happen considering the
Council has no authority to make independent
decisions

A
former UN weapons inspector has released a new book in which he
accuses President Bush of illegally invading Iraq and calls for
“regime change” in the United States at the next
election.

Scott Ritter said Bush lied to the American people and Congress
about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. He said UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan lacked courage, and that former chief
weapons inspector Hans Blix was “a moral and intellectual
coward”.

Ritter, a former US marine, was a weapons inspector in Iraq
from 1991 to 1998. He has been a vocal critical of
Washington’s policy on Iraq.

He
said he wrote Frontier Justice, Weapons of Mass Destruction and the
Bushwacking of America to educate people.

The
paperback, published by Context Books, has on its cover a picture
of Bush in jeans and a cowboy hat, behind the wheel of a
truck.

In
the book, Ritter notes that the Bush administration’s stated
reason for launching the war was to rid Iraq of weapons of mass
destruction.

The
book argues that there is no evidence Iraq possesses, produces or
concealed nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. Therefore,
Ritter argues that “the United States carried out an illegal
war of aggression.”

Bush, responding yesterday to similar charges about the lack of
evidence of illegal Iraqi weapons, insisted: “When it is all
said and done, the people of the United States and the world will
realise that Saddam Hussein had a weapons
programme.”

Ritter said Bush’s real goal was to get rid of Saddam
Hussein’s regime.

“What is needed in America is regime change,” he
wrote. “Anything but Bush and (Vice President Dick)
Cheney.”

He
also accused France and Germany of failing to get a UN Security
Council or General Assembly resolution calling the war illegal and
demanding a US withdrawal.

Ritter called former Iraqi opposition leader Ahmed Chalabi, now
on Iraq’s newly appointed governing council, and the
opposition Iraqi National Congress “the greatest single
source of fabricated, exaggerated so-called intelligence that you
can imagine”.

But
he had kind words for Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International
Atomic Energy Agency.

He
said ElBaradei was “much more honest” than Blix about
appraising Iraq’s nuclear weapons and the threat they
posed

The
thus-far fruitless hunt for deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
and the uncertainty surrounding the whereabouts of Al-Qaeda chief
Osama Bin Laden are giving Washington a double headache as it
battles worldwide terrorism and seeks stability in Iraq, experts
say.

“The US is a very big, huge military machine and to find
a single individual is always problematic,” said Judith
Kipper, Middle East expert with the Council on Foreign
Relations.

The
US makes no secret of the fact that Saddam’s capture is a top
priority. Three months after the fall of Baghdad, Washington posted
a $ 25million reward on his head.

From
wherever he is hiding, Saddam continues to thumb his nose at the US
occupiers of his country, disseminating audio tapes —
authenticated by the CIA — imploring Iraqis to rise up
against the “infidels.”

The
Iraqis know good and well that Saddam won’t return to power,
said Kipper, but an irrational fear continues to loom.

She
said. “As long as he is alive, they will believe, there will
be the perception, that he is behind all the troubles.”
[...]

Although Afghanistan’s Taleban has been overthrown and
the vise is tightening on several leaders of the Al-Qaeda network,
its top prize, Osama Bin Laden, remains as elusive as a cloud.
“Osama stays alive metaphorically or physically, spiritually,
if you will, by sending out tapes, video, audio,” said
Tanter.

And,
as the saying goes, imitation is the highest form of
flattery.

“Saddam looks to take a page out of Osama Bin
Laden’s play book,” [said Raymond Tanter, National
Security Council adviser to former President Ronald
Reagan.]

LONDON: Saddam Hussein is hiding in villages along the Tigris
river north of Baghdad along with his former chemical weapons
chief, known as "Chemical Ali", Britain's Independent newspaper
said yesterday.

The
Independent cited the former head of Iraqi military intelligence,
General Wafiq Al Samarrai, as saying the two wanted men are hiding
in an area of farmland and small villages between Baghdad and the
city of Samarra,100 km to the north.

Saddam has been able to escape capture because the area is
heavily populated and has thick vegetation, it said.

"He
is hiding in an area about 60km long and 20km wide according to my
information," Samarrai was quoted as saying.

Comment:
Hussein is hiding in a wardrobe room (possibly deep underground at
the Pentagon) and Osama (aka Princess Qaeda) was last seen at
Prince William's birthday party wearing a pink chiffon
dress...

The
Taliban claimed on Sunday that they have killed 14 Afghan and
American soldiers in two guerilla attacks in Kandahar in reports
reaching Pakistan from across the border. Taliban Mujahideen
attacked the soldiers who were returning to Kandahar in the Mandi
Saar and Khushal areas. Afghan authorities refused to comment on
the attacks.

Meanwhile, Afghan forces seized 300 rocket-propelled grenades
and dozens of anti-tank mines on Sunday in a raid on a Taliban
hideout near the Pakistan border, an Afghan commander said. The
weapons had been brought to the suspected rebel training camp, 10
kilometres from the southern border town of Spin Boldak, for
attacks on government and the US-led forces, said the commander,
who did not want to be identified. Taliban fighters guarding the
camp escaped the government swoop, he said.

The
haul included 300 rocket-propelled grenades, dozens of anti-tank
mines, 20 AK-47 rifles and various types of ammunition and
explosives. The weapons were seized from a Taliban group led by a
commander named Hafiz Rahim, the commander said.

Four
Taliban fighters had ambushed a police patrol to the south of
Kandahar city, a provincial security official said. The southern
city was the Taliban powerbase during their rule.Two policemen,
including the patrol commander, were wounded but the gunmen escaped
after an hour-long battle, the official said.

A
suspected rocket attack also took place near the Bagram air base,
post for the US-led forces in Afghanistan, on Saturday but there
were no casualties or damage, the US military officials said. A
blast also took place at a United Nations refugee transit centre in
the eastern city of Jalalabad on Saturday but caused no
injuries.

July 13, 2003 -- In a conversation with NPR's Steve Inskeep , Sen.
Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) -- the ranking Democrat on the Senate
Intelligence Committee -- says the White House unfairly made CIA
director George Tenet the scapegoat for faulty intelligence on
Iraq.

Rockefeller also told
Inskeep that National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice "had to have
known" a year before Bush's 2003 State of the Union address that
intelligence claiming Iraqi agents were attempting to purchase
uranium from African officials was bogus.

Referring to recent White
House and CIA statements meant to defuse the controversy,
Rockefeller said, "I think it raises more questions than it
settles, and I think it's far from over.

"I
cannot believe that Condi Rice... directly, from Africa, pointed
the finger at George Tenet, when she had known -- had to have known
-- a year before the State of the Union."

"The
entire intelligence community has been very skeptical about this
from the very beginning," Rockefeller says. "And she has her own
director of intelligence, she has her own Iraq and Africa
specialists, and it's just beyond me that she didn't know about
this, and that she has decided to make George Tenet the fall
person. I think it's dishonorable."

In
an interview with Fox News, Rice insisted that Bush's statement was
accurate -- but conceded that the assertion of Iraqi uranium
shopping in Africa should have been deleted from the
address.

"The
statement that (Bush) made was indeed accurate," Rice said. "The
British government did say that. Not only was the statement
accurate, there were statements of this kind in the National
Intelligence Estimate," a document compiled by U.S. agencies
detailing threats to the United States.

Comment: John D.
Rockefeller the Fourth, or "Jay" likes to present himself as a
country boy. He is on the Select Committee for Intelligence and the
Subcommittee on Health Care. With his family links to oil and
health care he stands to make millions from the Iraq War and the
push into Africa, now that it is supposedly flooded with
terrorists. Bush better watch out with a Rockefeller on his tail,
and remember that he is a mere puppet of the Rockefeller
family.

[...] Properly understood,
fascism and communism were, as the Soviet and German labels openly
declared, actually the same thing:, just two varieties of
socialism. The fascist praises the free market, but secretly works
to destroy it. The communist condemns the free market and openly
works to destroy it. Both tactics are tools of a monopolistic type
of parasitism known as socialism. The key goal in either case is
the destruction of economic market competition so that certain
ruthless individuals can acquire huge wealth and power. The wars
between the fascists and the communists in the 20th century have
simply been wars fought between competing monopolists.
[...]

Capitalism is good if
government doesn't interfere or take sides. Such does not exist
anywhere in the world today. Capitalism becomes something else that
is very bad (and is not even capitalism anymore) when government
interferes with competition and takes the side of various corporate
elites.

And
now we get to the "C" word: conspiracy. It is my belief that
corporate monopolists like John D. Rockefeller, Henry Morgan, the
Du Ponts, the Vanderbilts and other infamous "robber barons" here
and in Europe (where it all began with the Rothchilds and English
royalty) actually created and maintained communism in the Soviet
Union.

At
work is what is known as the "Hegelian Principle." There are three
parts to this technique. First you create the thesis. This is
usually a problem that is created by government meddling. The
thesis in this case was naked monopolistic capitalism, the bared
fang, no-holds-barred type that John D. Rockefeller wielded. The
masses get rather angry at some point. They don't like the big boys
taking over the whole block.

So,
now you create the solution to the problem that you had created
earlier. This solution is called the anti-thesis. You finance a
twisted megalomaniac by the name of Lenin to cook up a political
dogma (based upon the ideas of Karl Marx...who was funded by
European industrialists) that attacks your thesis and offers
something as bad or worse in its place. [...] After awhile, the
masses reject the anti-thesis. You have the so-called "fall" of
communism. [...]

This
isn't good news. It means the return of a feudal system to the
entire globe. It pretends to be the illuminated New World Order,
but it will be a New Dark Age unlike anything mankind has ever
known. That is...unless we stop it.

WASHINGTON -They are among
America's larger companies: Verizon Communications, AT&T
Wireless, Barnes & Noble booksellers and Dole Food Co. But in
the government's contractor database, they are listed as small
businesses.

The
mistaken designations, contained in records obtained by The
Associated Press, mean the government has overstated the contract
dollars that are going to small business at a time when the Bush
administration has been pressing to give smaller companies as much
federal work as possible. [...]

A
mob of about 100 Palestinian refugees stormed the office of a
Ramallah polling organisation yesterday to stop it publishing a
survey showing that five times as many refugees would prefer to
settle permanently in a Palestinian state than return to their old
homes in what is now Israel.

The
protesters pelted Khalil Shikaki, the director of the Palestinian
Centre for Policy and Survey Research, with eggs, smashed computers
and assaulted the nine staff members on duty. A female worker was
treated in hospital for her injuries. "This is a message for
everyone not to tamper with our rights," one of the rioters
said.

Dr
Shikaki, a leading West Bank political scientist, was undeterred.
He said he was still putting the survey results on the centre's
website and seeking the widest possible exposure. "These people,"
he said, "had no idea what the results were. They were sold
disinformation."

The
poll, conducted among 4,500 refugees in the West Bank, Gaza Strip,
Lebanon and Jordan, was the first to ask where they would want to
live if Israel recognised a right of return.

Only
10 per cent of the refugees chose Israel, even if they were allowed
to live there with Palestinian citizenship; 54 per cent opted for
the Palestinian state; 17 per cent for Jordan or Lebanon, and 2 per
cent for other countries. Another 13 per cent rejected all these
options, preferring to sit it out and wait for Israel to disappear,
while 2 per cent didn't know.

The
future of more than three million refugees is critical to any
lasting peace. It was one of the unresolved issues that caused the
July 2000 Camp David summit to break down.

Britain today rejected a call from the Israeli prime minister,
Ariel Sharon, to break off contacts with the chairman of the
Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat.

During talks this morning in London, the foreign secretary Jack
Straw made it clear that the government would continue dealing with
Mr Arafat "as we see fit", a British official said.

The
Israeli prime minister is having dinner with Tony Blair in Downing
Street tonight in a visit intended to repair bilateral relations
following several strains in recent months.

A
protest by Palestinian groups was planned to heckle Mr Sharon as he
arrived. [...]

"The
foreign secretary made clear our position, as with the rest of the
EU, is that Arafat is the democratically elected president of the
Palestinian Authority and we will continue to have dealings with
him as we see fit," one official said.

Mr
Sharon wants European leaders to cut their ties with Mr Arafat, who
he accuses of interfering in the work of the moderate Palestinian
prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen.
[...]

Today's summit comes on the day when Israel announced it had
arrested an unnamed Irishman in the occupied
territories.

However, the editor of an Irish language newspaper in Belfast
claimed the man was Sean O Muireagain, one of their
reporters.

The
man - who is in his 40s - was arrested near the town of Ramallah at
the weekend by Israeli security forces reportedly acting on
information from UK security services.

Ciaran O Pronntaigh of the Belfast paper, Lá, said the
allegations made against Seán O Muireagáin were
"rubbish".

"He
is a well-known Irish language and Palestine Solidarity Committee
activist in Belfast and was reporting from Jenin for Lá and
Raidió na Gaeltachta. He was arrested on his way into
Ramallah," he said.

The
PM has been urged by the mother of James Miller - an award-winning
cameraman shot dead while filming a documentary in a Gaza strip
refugee camp on May 2 this year - to secure justice for her dead
son.

Eileen Miller wants Mr Blair to press Mr Sharon for a full
investigation into the death of James, after an autopsy confirmed
he was almost certainly killed by an Israeli soldier, despite the
army's assertions to the contrary.

The
new premier threatened to resign last week over a continuing spat
with Arafat, but Palestinian Information Minister Nabil Amr emerged
from Monday night's talks in Ramallah to announce: "The crisis is
over."

A
few hours later, a Palestinian militant stabbed a young man to
death and knifed two others on a lively seaside promenade in Tel
Aviv. Shot in the legs and arrested as he fled along the sea, the
Palestinian assailant told police he belonged to the Al Aqsa
Martyrs Brigade, the military wing of Arafat's Fatah faction,
Israel Radio reported. Police called the stabbings the first terror
attack in an Israeli city since militant factions pledged June 29
to cease fire.

In
Ramallah, Amr said the Palestinian leaders agreed to share power
and negotiate as a pair — even though Arafat is banned from
talks with Israel. The president will have final say on
negotiations, and Amr will act as a mediator between the two.
Arafat's clout was also boosted in London, where British leaders
reportedly refused Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's calls to
boycott the Palestinian president.

The
killing of Jews is a mandatory religious obligation established by
Islam's founder Muhammad, according to a Muslim academic who spoke
on Palestinian Authority television.

"Muhammad
said in his Hadith: "The Hour [Day of Resurrection] will not arrive
until you fight the Jews, [until a Jew will hide behind a rock or
tree] and the rock and the tree will say: 'Oh Muslim, servant of
Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!'" said Hassan
Khader, founder of the Al Quds Encyclopedia.

Khader
spoke during a lecture, broadcast Sunday, on what he describes as
the war of the Jews against Palestinian "trees."

The
program was monitored by Palestinian Media Watch, or PMW, an
Israel-based group.

PMW
director Itamar Marcus says Khader's statement was one of many
instances in recent years of Palestinian religious leaders teaching
publicly that this Hadith – part of Islamic traditions
attributed to Muhammad – is a current obligation of
Islam.

Marcus
says these teachings challenge the common belief that the premise
for negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians is over
borders.

"Palestinian religious and
academic leaders publicly teach that the Israel-Palestinian
conflict is part of Islam's irreconcilable religious war against
the Jews," he says.

"To
justify this view," he adds, "Palestinians repeatedly cite Islamic
sources to demand as religious doctrine, that Jews be hated, even
demanding the killing of Jews as the will of Allah."

Marcus
says "the continued expression of this PA worldview is most
ominous."

"For by
depicting redemption as dependent on Muslims' murder of Jews, the
murder of Jews is being presented as mandatory religious
obligation," he says.

The
arrest of a Belfast man by Israeli security forces in the West Bank
on suspicion that he was a bombmaker for the Real IRA looks like a
case of mistaken identity.

An Irish
newspaper said yesterday that the man was one of its journalists
and had nothing to do with the Real IRA. The newspaper, Lá,
demanded that the journalist, Sean O'Muireagain, be released. He is
also known under the English name of John Morgan. His parents said
yesterday that he was on a cultural visit to arrange school
exchanges. [...]

OKLAHOMA CITY Cold War-era sirens may be revived as terrorism
warnings. Cities including Oklahoma City, Chicago and Dallas have
upgraded their outdoor warning systems with a type of siren that
can carry voice announcements - an idea that officials say took on
added importance in the post-Sept. 11 world. [...]

July 13th
marked the third anniversary of the US military aid package known
as "Plan Colombia" and consequently, the fatal impact it has had on
human rights. Three years ago the US Congress voted to send 1.3
billion dollars to Colombia in order to fight the "war on
drugs".

An
amendment to U.S. law currently prohibits military aid to units
linked to human rights abuses. Although violations officially
attributed to the Colombian military have decreased, the Human
Rights Watch and State Department Reports establish the collusion
and collaboration between the military and paramilitary
forces.

With
military support, the paramilitaries have begun operating as
surrogate death squads and thugs. A United Nations report confirmed
this trend, stating that "Members of the military participated in
massacres, organized paramilitary groups, and spread death threats.
The security forces also failed to take action, and this
undoubtedly enabled the paramilitary groups to achieve their
exterminating objectives."

Many of
the Colombian officers cited in the reports graduated from the
School of the Americas (SOA) - a US military training institution
for Latin American soldiers - and certainly the strategy of using
paramilitary groups for the military's dirty work is nothing new
for SOA students. [...]

The
controversial Terrorism Information Awareness program, which would
troll Americans' personal records to find terrorists before they
strike, may soon face the same fate Congress meted out to John
Ashcroft in his attempt to create a corps of volunteer domestic
spies: death by legislation.

The
Senate's $368 billion version of the 2004 defense appropriations
bill, released from committee to the full Senate on Wednesday,
contains a provision that would deny all funds to, and thus would
effectively kill, the Terrorism Information Awareness program,
formerly known as Total Information Awareness. TIA's projected
budget for 2004 is $169 million.

TIA is the brainchild of John Poindexter, a key figure from
the Iran-Contra scandal, who now heads the research effort
at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Critics on the left and
right have called TIA an attempt to impose Big Brother on
Americans. The program would use advanced data-mining tools and a
mammoth database to find patterns of terrorist activities in
electronic data trails left behind by everyday life.
[...]

Comment: Don't
worry. The U.S. government is already data mining, profiling and
spying on Americans. This was just an attempt to tie it in with
terrorist activity, to publicly acquire money for it instead of
drawing from the black budget, and so they can publicly announce
they used the technology for tracking down disgruntled American's
who might think about terrorist activity.

Some
parents in a southern Oregon town are protesting plans of the local
school district to erect a flagpole and U.S. flag outside a
taxpayer-supported learning center, reports the Ashland Daily
Tidings.

"I feel
very strongly that there should not be a flagpole and there should
not be a flag," Tracy Bungay told the paper.

"I feel
our country is on a strong push towards imperialism, and we're not
a democratic nation anymore. I want to raise my children to be
citizens of the world, and the flag does not represent ideals I
want to instill in my children. It represents dominance, greed,
corporate power and not freedom. I think it even represents
commercialism and consumerism." [...]

TEHRAN
(Reuters) - Iran has made a major new oil find containing estimated
reserves of more than 38 billion barrels, making it one of the
world's biggest undeveloped fields, a senior oil official was
quoted as saying Monday. [...]

Khamoushi
said the fields contained crude of high density and very low API,
meaning the oil will be less valuable on world markets than some
other regional grades.

He said
preliminary studies indicated that the Ferdows field contained 30.6
billion barrels or crude, the Mound field 6.63 billion and the
Zagheh field 1.3 billion. [...]

WASHINGTON – In
congressional testimony last week, Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld swore repeatedly that he'd just "days" earlier learned
that the uranium charge President Bush made against Iraq six months
ago was bogus.

Since
then, he's had to correct the record twice, finally admitting he
knew the allegation was false as early as March – less than
two months after Bush's now-controversial State of the Union speech
and just before the Iraq war started. [...]

Former
defense secretary William Perry warned that the United States and
North Korea are drifting toward war, perhaps as early as this year,
in an increasingly dangerous standoff that also could result in
terrorists being able to purchase a North Korean nuclear device and
plant it in a U.S. city.

"I think
we are losing control" of the situation, said Perry, who believes
North Korea soon will have enough nuclear warheads to begin
exploding them in tests and exporting them to terrorists and other
U.S. adversaries. "The nuclear program now underway in North Korea
poses an imminent danger of nuclear weapons being detonated in
American cities," he said in an interview.

Perry
added that he reached his conclusions after extensive conversations
with senior Bush administration officials, South Korean President
Roh Moo Hyun and senior officials in China. [...]

AUSTRALIA is giving itself
the option of becoming a nuclear power through a deal with the US
to obtain nuclear weapons and extensive investment in atomic
expertise, it has been claimed. Options: Lucas Heights reactor, and
nuclear detonation

A
leading strategic policy expert says Australia is forging an
understanding with the US that would ensure quick access to "off
the shelf" tactical nuclear weapons during a crisis.

And
a former senior Howard Government science adviser says the new $600
million reactor at Lucas Heights will ensure Australia has the
skills and technology to launch a nuclear weapons program.
[...]

"It is Australia's insurance policy against the future, just in
case the US does not come to our aid. We are way more advanced in
nuclear technology than Saddam Hussein ever was." [...]

BEIJING, July 14
(Xinhuanet) -- A follower of the Falun Gong cult has shocked
society by poisoning 17 innocent people, most beggars or vagrants,
from May 25 to June 27 this year under the Falun Gongcult
doctrines, according to a commentary to be carried in Tuesday's
People's Daily.[...]

The
crime once again showed that the cult still threatens society's
stability and safety and the crimes once again ridicule the cult's
so-called doctrines of "truth, kindness and tolerance,"the
commentary says.

Comment: Hmm, the
Chinese government have been after the Falun Gong for some time, is
this how they will finally take them down? Smells like it might be
an operation.

Just
when the world was beginning to think that human rights were
becoming widely accepted, governments are coming up with very
strange provisions in the name of fighting terrorism.

The
US government was hit by terrorists once and it ran amok.
Governments round the world, including the Kenya government, have
been under pressure to support the US war on terror. Now Kenya has
come up with a strange piece called the Suppression of Terrorism
Bill, which Ng'ang'a Thiong'o says violates even some of the most
basic legal principles.

Naveed Anwar Mohammed was
arrested on June 28, 2003 at Garissa and held in police custody for
nine days over suspicions that he was a terrorist. He was released
without charges and will now have to wait for years for
compensation.

The same could happen to anyone of us.

The
Suppression of Terrorism Bill, 2003 is a dangerous draft piece of
legislation. It is surprising that the NARC government would come
up with such an oppressive draft at a time when the country is in
the process of repealing oppressive and retrogressive laws from the
statute books. [...]

Some of the
sections have been reproduced word for word from the US Patriot
Act. There are also traces of the suppression of Communism Act in
the Bill. Looked at as a whole, the Bill is an assault on Kenya's
sovereignty and dignity. It takes away all that Kenyans have so
dearly fought for in the last 30 years in terms of human rights and
fundamental individual freedoms.

It
creates avenues for entries and searches without warrants, torture
of suspects, holding of suspects incommunicado indefinitely, erodes
the privacy of communications, permit unlawful deprivation and
seizure of property and is basically a threat to national integrity
and security. [...]

In
short the Bill creates a Police republic and allows foreigners to
arrest and brutalise Kenyans. It is a bad draft and must be
rejected by all Kenyans. No sovereign Parliament can pass the Bill
in its present form. As Harrison Kinyanjui ably demonstrated, the
Bill does not just target Muslims but all of us. In particular, it
targets known human rights and political activists.

[...] Check this Sunday’s [New York Times] edition:
“Bill Gates is no ordinary philanthropist,” gushes a
Times reporter named Stephanie Strom, re-writing one of the digital
diva’s self-loving press releases. Gates has saved 100,000
lives by providing vaccines to Africans, gushes Stephanie,
according to someone on the payroll of … Bill Gates.
And he’s making access to drugs for Africans, especially for
AIDS victims, “cheaper and easier.” Stephanie
knows because she asked Bill Gates himself!

Then we get to the real point of this journalistic Lewinsky:
“Those who think of Mr. Gates as a ruthless billionaire
monopolist … may find it hard to reconcile that image with
one of a humorously self-deprecating philanthropist.”

Actually, that’s not hard at all. [...]

Comment: The rest
is commentary on how Gate's is helping himself by helping the drug
companies. The point is missed that AIDS is really a bunch of
symptoms, primarily caused by tainted water and malnutrition,
lumped together in the AIDS umbrella so poisonous drugs can be
sold. Promoting genocide and making money at the same
time.

A
raging fire in southern Arizona has affected amateur as well as
professional astronomy.

by
Michael E. Bakich

For
much of the past month, fire has threatened multiple observing
sites located in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson,
Arizona. Tim Hunter, a local amateur astronomer and owner of
3towers Observatory stated, "Arizona amateur astronomers were quite
worried the fires would harm the observatories on Mount Lemmon and
Mount Bigelow. We have a tightly-knit community. Whether
professional or amateur, we all love astronomy ."

Regarding amateur astronomy
during the fires, Hunter said that the smoke and haze did overlie
the city at various times, making it somewhat uncomfortable to be
outside and making it all but impossible to observe, particularly
for those who are on the east side of town nearest the
fire.

"My
good friend, amateur astronomer James McGaha, had to shut down his
very active asteroid observing program for several days," Hunter
explained. "He could easily see the fires in the canyons near him
and the smoke was at times almost overwhelming."

The
smoke also created a large cloud that seemed to gather water vapor,
increasing the cloud and haze effects. [...]

Comment: This
article was posted in January 18th, 2000, but we are recommending
it for the good research and the animated gif toward the bottom. In
case anyone happens to see something similar in the sky, they will
have an idea of what is going on. The article is brought to us from
From
Brian Vike Director, HBCC UFO Research, who
wrote the article we posted on yesterday's signs page
Daylight
UFO Photos. Don't miss Brian's other article on Rense (with
photo),
Black Helicopter & Unknown
Object.

A
RARE type of dragonfly has been discovered in Scotland for the
first time by environmentalists, providing further evidence that
global warming is helping some species move north.

The
broad-bodied chaser, Libellula depressa, was spotted by Sophie
Dacheux, Scottish Wildlife Trust contracts co-ordinator, while she
was monitoring recent planting work carried out by conservation
teams at Craiglockhart pond in Edinburgh.

Experts already had spotted a specimen depositing eggs near
Carlisle this year, so it looks as if the dragonfly has flown
north.

THE
Victorian government has given the go-ahead for a contaminated soil
recycling facility to be located in Gippsland in the state's south
east.

Major Projects Minister Peter Batchelor today announced
Gippsland Water had been invited to pursue plans to develop the
facility at Dutson Downs.

"Studies into the environmental, transport and financial
aspects of the proposal, undertaken over the past seven months,
showed the proposed facility poses no risk to the Gippsland Lakes
or local amenity," Mr Batchelor said in a statement.

He
said Gippsland Water would have to apply to the Environmental
Protection Agency to receive a works permit.

But
he said Planning Minister Mary Delahunty had advised that no
environmental effects statement would be required, as comprehensive
studies had already been undertaken.

Local residents have been opposed to the facility, citing its
proximity to the Gippsland Lakes and an RAAF bombing
range.

WASHINGTON – Climatologist Patrick J. Michaels says fears
of catastrophic global warming are scientifically unfounded and
"alarmist." Any climate change that does occur would not affect
Earth or its inhabitants in any significant way, he
said.

"The
science is settled in a very non-alarmist way," Michaels told
CNSNews.com. He predicted that his message would not be well
received by many in the climate debate.

"A
non-alarmist way is politically very unpopular in Washington,
D.C.," he said.

Michaels, author of the book "Satanic Gasses: Clearing the Air
about Global Warming" and an environmental sciences professor at
the University of Virginia, was the featured speaker at a luncheon
sponsored by Cato Institute on Friday. [...]

22/02/97

A: Climate is
being influenced by three factors, and soon a fourth.Q: (L) All right, I'll take the bait; give me the three
factors, and also the fourth!A: 1) Wave
approach. 2) Chlorofluorocarbon increase in atmosphere, thus
affecting ozone layer. 3) Change in the planet's axis rotation
orientation. 4) Artificial tampering by 3rd and 4th density STS
forces in a number of different ways. Be vigilant. Be observant. Be
cautious in your planning and be aware. Do not let emotional
anomalies cloud your knowledge base. This is not a "time" to let
one's guard down. Be especially careful of travel to unfamiliar
locators, as well as sleeping in unfamiliar surroundings!!! You are
being watched. Or, at least, it is best to assume you are, and act,
think, and prepare accordingly. Remember what you have been warned
about concerning attack. As you learn more and know more, you
become more interesting... and, when your ranks swell, you are more
vulnerable unless you are more aware!!

Q: (L) All right,
were those given in the order in which they are occurring? The
fourth being the one that's coming later?

A: Maybe, but
remember this: a change in the speed of the rotation may not be
reported while it is imperceptible except by instrumentation.
Equator is slightly "wider" than the polar zones. But, this
discrepancy is decreasing slowly currently. One change to occur in
21st Century is sudden glacial rebound, over Eurasia first, then
North America. Ice ages develop much, much, much faster than
thought.

Fifty-one people were feared dead after being buried by a mudslide
in southwestern China's Sichuan province over the weekend, state
media said today.

Rescuers recovered one body — that of a female tourist
from Shanghai — after flash floods in a river valley
dislodged a wall of mud and rocks and blocked roads leading to the
site, according to the official publication China Daily.

Seasonal flooding in China has killed nearly 570 people this
year and forced the evacuation of 2.3 million, according to Civil
Affairs Ministry figures released last week.

TEHRAN, July 14 (AFP) -
Last week's earthquakes in southern Iran destroyed more than 3,500
homes in the Zarrindasht region, according to the director of the
Iranian Red Crescent, the official news agency IRNA reported Monday
.

[...] In Candler County
yesterday, near Metter in Aline, they had something a bit unusual.
A moderate earthquake. You don't hear about earthquakes in the
southeast very often. It was a shock, even with those who'd seen
one before.

According to the US
Geological Service, an earthquake struck the area. It measured 3.6
on the Richter Scale and it rattled windows and homes across the
community.

It's
a new form of adult entertainment, and men are paying thousands of
dollars to shoot naked women with paint ball guns. They're coming
to Las Vegas to do it. This bizarre new sport has captured the
attention of people around the world, but Channel 8 Eyewitness News
reporter LuAnne Sorrell is the only person who has interviewed the
game's founder.

George Evanthes has never been hunting. "Originally I'm from
New York. What am I going to hunt? Squirrels? Someone's cats.
Someone's dogs? I don't think so," said Evanthes. Now that he's
living in Las Vegas , he's finally getting his chance to put on his
camouflage, grab a rifle and pull the trigger, but what's in his
scope may surprise you. He's not hunting ducks or even deer. He's
hunting woman. Naked women. [...]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) —
As a troubled youngster, Landon May worried he had inherited "bad
blood" from his father, a notorious killer on Pennsylvania's death
row.

Now,
on death row himself for the torture killings of a school principal
and her husband, May is hoping the state Supreme Court might give
him another chance to argue he was fated to follow in his father's
violent footsteps.

In
an unusual appeal, May's lawyer said experts should have been
allowed to testify when jurors were deliberating May's sentence
that he was genetically predisposed to violence, given his family
history. [...]

FUKUI -- A 33-year-old man
mistakenly blew himself up Sunday on a Fukui street trying to
launch a fire bomb attack on the house of a man who bullied him
during their high school days, police said.[...]

"I
was trying to get even with a bully from my high school days. I
learnt how to make bombs on the Internet," the 33-year-old man
reportedly said while he was being transported to hospital.
[...]

[...] A mysterious flying
object was seen to hover and reflect light for more than a minute
before lifting off into the sky towards the Castlemilk and Glasgow
area.

The
sighting comes only two months after The Reformer reported that the
Glasgow UFO Research Organisation (GUFORO) were still investigating
reports from three people of a similar object seen in the area last
summer.

The
recent sighting was made by a medical professional in his 30s, who
lives Cathkin.

He
is now calling for anyone else who may have seen anything to report
what they saw. [...]

In
how many places can you visit a 5,000-year-old village, walk into a
great tomb of the same era and read graffiti cut into its walls by
Vikings four millenniums later, stroll round the ruins of a
pre-Roman castle - and never be more than a 20-minute drive from
one of the oldest and loveliest stone circles in
existence?

But
after a few days in Orkney, an archipelago between the Scottish
mainland and the Shetland Islands, you won't be surprised by such
richness. [...]